salmon ban

isle of innisfree · #1 09-02-2007, 09:24 PM

I dont know if anyone fishes for salmon in ireland if you do what do you think of the ban on some rivers

fishypaul · #2 09-02-2007, 09:31 PM

don't know anything about it mate,is it all about conservation ?

isle of innisfree · #3 09-03-2007, 07:23 AM

yes but i think if they killed a few seals around the coast and stopped netting and poaching it would help more

dougwoolcott · #4 09-03-2007, 03:16 PM

Which rivers have been affected ?

isle of innisfree · #5 09-03-2007, 04:05 PM

Most of them except the likes of the moy and drowse where they make to much money to shut them

Pross · #6 09-04-2007, 10:16 AM

Killing off seals is just the sort of suggestion the antis love to read! Salmon are in decline due to over-fishing by man so killing off animals for which fish are a natural food source and who have managed to maintain the ecological balance for thousands of years. The numbers of fish caught by rod and line anglers is negligible in the grand scheme of things so the ban is a pointless excercise especially as many anglers are now converted to catch and release and also record catches to allow tracking and understanding of fish movement. Its the commercials and illegal netters that are the problem and closing rivers won't stop them. The other problem is water quaility although this seems to have improved over the last couple of decades but run off from farmland is still a potential problem.

isle of innisfree · #7 09-04-2007, 04:40 PM

don't see what makes seals so special fishery owners are now allowed to shot cormorants under licence badgers are being culled seals are in my opinion a menace nearly to the point of being vermin i was fishing on the beach at strand hill catching and releasing sea trout when in they moved in two whiskered devils! iv not had a sea trout since on the beach why?
but this is just an opinion

Pross · #8 09-05-2007, 07:57 AM

I believe cormorants are allowed to be shot as they aren't indiginous to our shores, badgers are being culled (rightly or wrongly) on grounds of animal health because of their links with bovine TB. Seals are native to our shores and fish are their diet and surely therefore have more of a right to the fish than anglers? I agree with your points on netting and poaching however and agree that a ban on angling is really only p***ing in the ocean especially as most fish caught by licenced anglers are released in these days.

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